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Good inner city housing is easy to find at much cheaper than 400k€ even in large cities of Western Europe. I'm talking about >150m² city houses here, not "small
by seszett 6y ago
Good inner city housing is easy to find at much cheaper than 400k€ even in large cities of Western Europe. I'm talking about >150m² city houses here, not "small apartments" by any standards.
Seeing how you consider 50-60k€ annual salary as "relative poverty" makes me think that your expectations are rather unrealistic. Indeed, a regular IT worker cannot buy a city palace and retire at 40 in Europe, so maybe that's what you consider poverty relative to even richer people.
Also, moving around in Europe is easier than anywhere else (I should know...) and language is basically the only problem. While in the rest of the world, language is a relatively smaller problem compared to the administrative problems you have to face first (if you even can move at all to the country you want).
- EdwinLarkin 6y agoLanguage is not the only problem.It's the different rules that apply to the EU countries.Imagine you have non-EU spouse and they are basically constrained to one european country. Here the EU means nothing.
- realityking 6y agoThat’s not true, there’s an EU residence permit that transfers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_resident_(European_Union) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_resident_(European... It’s relatively new (from 2006). I’m sure it will evolve over time to be even easier.
- seszett 6y agoThis is not different from outside the EU, though, which is my point. The EU is not perfect but moving within it is easier than moving between countries anywhere else in the world (outside of a few much smaller blocks).
- piva00 6y agoEU permanent residency enables you to live in any EU country, you don't need citizenship to have freedom of movement in the EU.